Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labeling) Amendment Rules, 2017

EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 233] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2017/CHAITRA 3, 1939 MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (Department of Health and Family Welfare) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 24th March, 2017 G.S.R. 292(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 7, sub-section (2) of section 8, section 10 and section 31 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (34 of 2003), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008, namely:— 1. (1) These rules may be called the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2017. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008, in rule 5, for sub-rule, (4) and (5), the following proviso shall be substituted, namely:— “Provided that the date of coming into effect of the second image (image2) of specified health warning, shall be for all tobacco products manufactured after the completion of twelve months from the 1st day of April, 2016.”. ARUN KUMAR JHA, Economic Adviser Note : The Principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section(i) vide notification numbers G.S.R. 182 (E), dated the 15th March, 2008 and subsequently amended vide notification numbers G.S.R. 693(E), dated the 29th September, 2008, S.O. 2814(E), dated the 28th November, 2008; G.S.R.305(E), dated the 3rd March; 2009, G.S.R.176(E), dated the 5th March, 2010; G.S.R. 411(E), dated the 17th May, 2010; G.S.R 985(E), dated the 20th December, 2010; G.S.R 417(E), dated the 27th May, 2011; 15th October, 2014; G.S.R. 228(E) dated the 26th March, 2015; and G.S.R. 739(E) dated the 24th September, 2015. and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054. SARVESH KUMAR SRIVASTAVA